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Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas: The MPA Plan of Action for IUCNs World Commission on Protected Areas
… role as climate moderator and provider of essential ecosystem services. Photo: NASA 3 Significant progress is now … tivity. This is to maintain but increasingly recover ecosystem structure, function and processes in order to … biodiversity by 2010; • encouraging the application of an Ecosystem Approach in marine management by 2010; • …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… SBSTTA I/8), invasive alien species (see below), the ecosystem approach (Decision V/6),4 and guidelines on … work. See e.g., Report: Liaison Group meeting on Ecosystem Approach, 15–17 September 2000, Paris. Cartagena … work under FAO auspices on developing guidance for the ecosystem approach to fisheries (eg, FAO, 2003). CCAMLR Of …
A1- Integrating Environmental Concerns in International Water Law
… requirements for considering environmental and fluvial ecosystem protection, consistent with the general … requirements for considering environmental and fluvial ecosystem protection, consistent with the general … in Article 20 requires that a particular watercourse ecosystem be transboundary; it must only be part of a …
A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners
… the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. The definition is … to: ● Protect species, habitats and ecosystems; ● Maintain ecosystem services, vital for local and national economies; ● … ● Developing plans for multifunctional landscape/ecosystem scale conservation (e.g. watershed management …
Guidelines for Reintroductions and other Conservation Translocations (Version 1.0)
… benefit at the levels of a population, species or ecosystem, and not only provide benefit to translocated … ways the focal species, their associated communities and ecosystem functions in both source and destination areas; … species locally or globally, and/or restoring natural ecosystem functions or processes. A translocation involves …
Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
… Category II National Park: area managed mainly for ecosystem protection and recreation – natural area of land … on- farm requires the maintenance of the agro- ecosystem along with the cultivation and selection processes … environmental factors. l Indirect benefits, including ecosystem support. l Sustainable use by local people. l Does …
Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… IUCN Environmental Law Centre in the areas of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), Land Use, Land Use Change and … The social and economic consequences of the loss of ecosystem services provided by forests are also potentially … for rewarding the conservation of forest and other ecosystem services that have been made conditional on …
Rule: Reforming water governance
… Initiative is an action programme to demonstrate that ecosystem-based management and stakeholder participation will … and fair allocations, protect water quality for human and ecosystem uses as defined by water policy, and set up an … on the perception of water as an integral part of the ecosystem, a natural resource, and a social and economic …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. The definition is … seeks to address all threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services through scientific assessments, the … APIs Areas of Particular Importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services BMZ German Federal Ministry for Economic …